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<i>The Farm in the Green Mountains</i> is the story of a family finding homeâ€"halfway across the world from their homeland.<br><br> Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer and her husband, the playwright Carl Zuckmayer, lived at the heart of intellectual life in Weimar Germany, counting among their circle Stefan Zweig, Alma Mahler, and Bertolt Brecht. After Carlâ€™s work fell afoul of the Nazis, however, the couple and their two daughters were forced to flee Europe. Los Angeles didnâ€™t suit them and neither did New York, but then a chance stroll in the Vermont woods led them to Backwoods Farm, the eighteenth-century house where they would live for the next five years. In Europe, the Zuckmayers were accustomed to servants; in Vermont, they found themselves joyfully building chicken coops and refereeing fights between unruly ducks. Despite the endless work a new farm required and brutal winters that triggered bouts of melancholy, Alice discovered that in America she had found her â€œnative land.â€&#157; And her generous, surprising, and witty memoir, a bestseller in postwar Germany, has all the charm of a love story with a happy ending.

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<b>Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer </b>(1901â€"1991) was born in Vienna, where she spent her childhood. After living for some time in Berlin as an actress, she married the writer Carl Zuckmayer in 1925. When Hitler came to power in 1933, her studies in medicine were interrupted and she and her husband were forced to flee Germany. They went first to Austria, then, five years later, they again had to flee for their lives, taking separate routes to a reunion in Switzerland. In 1939 they immigrated with their two daughters to America.<br><br><b>Ida H. Washington</b> taught German literature for many years and, along with her husband, Larry Washington, helped found the German language program at he University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. She is the author of <i>Dorothy Canfield Fisher: A Biography</i>.